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[espigeonage]

The Train to STE Meme (SPOILERS for canon deaths)


You know those Train to the Afterlife memes? In STE the canon versions of all our characters are dead. What if there was a train bearing their spirits on to reincarnation here?

This is a meme where canon versions of the characters can interact. They all know they're dead. They may or may not remember just how they died, or how they got to be on this particular train. Doesn't matter if they'll be born decades apart - that just means some people disembark a little earlier than others. Go over brochures about what your new incarnation will be like, spontaneously turn or be human, try the snack cart, fail to convince the friendly but very busy conductor to give you a transfer, or simply chat.

You just can't stop the train, or leave it. Not yet.

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[earnedmystripes]

[He was life partners with Barnaby Brooks Jr., okay, stern looks are nothing anymore.

Especially considering that the face doing the glaring looks kinda...familiar...]

Really sorry about that, again, didn't mean to bother ya...

[That's only like...one-fourth true.

But okay, getting Upset Guy to talk to him is being put on hold for a second because he's really damn curious about that face.

Kotetsu digs out the brochure from his pocket, and it's a little bit mushed but yep, that sure is Ravi in his next-life brochure, he thought he'd seen him when he was reading it earlier!!!]

--You're...!

[REEEEEEL it in, Kotetsu, Upset Guy (aka Ravi) clearly is in no state of mind to be cheerfully greeted, even if they are apparently going to be among each other's closest people in the next life.

He's just going to pretend that mini-outburst never happened. Brochure gets shoved back in his pocket, and he continues to pick up the pieces of popcorn littered on the ground. Doesn't look like he's going to leave your personal space bubble any time soon while he's doing that, tho. Get up and leave or help out to get him out of your hair faster?]

[healspec]

[HE PICKS NEITHER.]

[he picks slowly unwinding from his recoil to sit stiffly and continue glaring at Kotetsu.]

[he's even more annoyed that this dude seems to have recognized him. from the brochure, apparently? he still hasn't looked at his. he doesn't...care. he is too miserable about his wasted life and awful death to care.]

[...okay he's nosy enough to want to know how Kotetsu was going to finish that, though.]

I'm what. [it's a question, but a very flat one. there's an accent there. not an Earth accent, but easily comparable to something from the Indian subcontinent, if you're not too well versed in what they'd actually sound like.]

[earnedmystripes]

[Sternbild is like AU Earth of the retrofuture, who even knows what accents sound like there.

It's not something Kotetsu really notices or pays attention to, though, anyway. He got what he wanted, i.e. Ravi engaging him, though he was hoping they could get going on talk about something far less important, considering that talking about their new lives necessarily means acknowledging their deadness, which is presumably what Ravi is upset about.

Not answering would probably just upset and frustrate the guy more, though, and he doesn't wanna do that.]

Ravi, right? We're apparently supposed to be friends in the new-life thing.

[healspec]

[it's not his deadness so much as the circumstances thereof. not a strong distinction functionally, though. being reminded about this next-life business just reminds him of how bad the last one was.]

[but there's an even more uncomfortable parallel here, because do you know how he wound up becoming friends with Alex?]

[it was because Alex was an obnoxious ass who forced his way into Ravi's life.]

[kiiiind of like Kotetsu is doing right now. and hey, guess what he really doesn't want to think about!]

[he slouches a bit, wraps his arms around himself, glances down at the brochure on the seat beside him.]

You're off to a good start. [it's a petulant mumble, but there's no bite behind it.]

BET YOU THOUGHT I FORGOT THIS, HUH :P

[earnedmystripes]

I've never been one for first impressions.

[He's finally finished cleaning up the popcorn, so he's going to smirk gently and take his seat next to Ravi again, resting his head against his arms.]

I'm Kotetsu. [Beat. That smirk deepens.] 'Clumsy Asshole' works too.

[healspec]

[a halfway amused huff, because that much is obvious.]

You are being annoying on purpose.

[he just deadpans it. callin your shit out, Kotetsu. he knows what that kind of thing looks like and he doesn't care how you feel about it.]

[he doesn't sound mad about it, at least. more...exasperated. like it's something he used to get annoyed about but has long since grown used to.]